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An Overview of AHS International
October 21, 2014 AHS International
The Vertical Flight Technical Society
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World’s premier professional vertical flight technical society
Expands knowledge about vertical flight technology and promotes its application around the world
Advances rotorcraft safety
Advocates for vertical flight R&D funding
Helps train the next generation of vertical flight leaders
Benefits all helicopter operators – commercial, private and military; manned and unmanned
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About AHS
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Leadership – AHS leads technology, safety, advocacy and other initiatives. We bring together industry, academia and government to tackle the toughest challenges.
Advocacy – AHS works to affect change to benefit the industry and create recognition of the benefits of vertical flight.
Vertiflite – get in-depth insight into the latest developments with the world’s leading magazine on vertical flight technology.
The Journal – the world’s only vertical flight technical journal, The Journal of the AHS has the latest scientific findings and engineering breakthroughs.
Networking – interact with some of the 1200 attendees at the Annual Forum or with small gatherings at your local Chapter meeting or Specialists’ Meetings.
Participation – get involved with your local chapter, join one of our 21 different technical committees or help in many other ways!
Recognition – be eligible to be recognized by your peers for outstanding contributions or nominate others through our awards program.
Education – student chapters, VFF Scholarships, Human Powered Helicopter Competition, and Student Design Competition.
Members Only – exclusive online content and deep discounts for AHS products, including free “Paper of the Month” and Vertiflite, Career Center, and much more!
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Annual Forum attracts 1200 engineers, scientists and leaders from industry, academia and governments
– Helicopter manufacturer CEOs/VPs/engineers, military leaders, researchers, etc
– ~250 technical papers
– ~35 panelists
– ~65 exhibitors
Grand Awards Banquet
Short courses & industry tours
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71st Annual Forum is May 5-7, 2015 in Virginia Beach
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Publication PDFs Pages Initial Online Completed
Journal of the AHS 1,600 25,000 2009 2009
Vertiflite magazine (800 issues) 800 25,000 Jan 2012 2012
AHS Forum Proceedings 6,000 75,000 March 2012 2012
Specialists Meeting proceedings 6,000 75,000 May 2012 2015
Total: 200,000
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Acoustics
Advanced Vertical Flight
Aerodynamics
Aircraft Design
Avionics & Systems
Crash Safety
Crew Stations & Human Factors
Dynamics
Handling Qualities
Health & Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS)
History
Manufacturing Technology
Modeling & Simulation
Operations
Product Systems Technology
Propulsion
Safety
Structures & Materials
System Engineering Tools & Processes
Test & Evaluation
Unmanned VTOL Aircraft
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Jan 22-24, 2014 Aeromechanics San Francisco, CA
Feb 17-19, 2014 Handling Qualities Huntsville, AL
May 20-22, 2014 Forum 70 Montreal, Canada
June 25-26, 2014 China Civil Helicopter Summit * Beijing
Aug 26-27, 2014 Transformative VL Workshop Arlington, VA
Aug 27-28, 2014 RDT&E Patuxent River, MD
Sep 2-5, 2014 European Rotorcraft Forum * Southampton, UK
Oct 21, 2014 Civil VTOL UAS Workshop College Park, MD
Oct 28, 2014 HELMOT (Military Ops Tech) Ft Eustis, VA
Dec 18-19, 2014 Australian Pacific Melbourne
Jan 20-22, 2015 Unmanned Rotorcraft Chandler, AZ
Feb 9-11, 2015 Airworthiness, CBM, HUMS Huntsville, AL
May 4-7, 2015 Forum 71 Virginia Beach, VA
* co-sponsors
Workshop
Technical Specialist Meeting
Transformative Vertical Flight Concepts Joint Workshop
VTOL UAS Symposium and
Workshop
Unmanned Rotorcraft Systems
Phoenix, AZ
Washington, DC
January 2015
August 2014 21 October 2014
VTOL
Information Sharing across operational field of use UAS control/interoperability (ground & aerial systems)
NCO-related analysis, modeling, and simulation Ad hoc network enabled systems
Networked sensor integration Command-and-control
UAS / UAV
UAS Airspace Integration
Civil Certification
Markets
Electric Distributed Propulsion
Platform Technology
Manned aircraft
An exploration of the technical and regulatory challenges of
integrating VTOL UAS in national
airspace for precision delivery and survey tasks
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Politecnico di Milano (2nd Grad) Georgia Tech (1st Grad)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (3rd Grad) Georgia Tech (2nd Undergrad)
St. Louis Univ. (1st Undergrad)
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“Distributed Logistics in an Urban Setting Using Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles”
32nd Annual Competition
$12,000 in prizes
RFP and details at www.vtol.org/sdc
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3rd Annual Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) Student Challenge – Forum 71, May 4 @ Virginia Beach
– Open to universities and high schools
– $10,000 in prizes
Autonomous prize is still unwon!
– Autonomous target acquisition, landing and return
RFP and details at www.vtol.org/mav
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Sixth Biennial Specialists' Meeting On Unmanned Rotorcraft Systems: Platform Design, Autonomy, Operator Workload Reduction and Network Centric Operations
January 20-22, 2015 in Chandler, Arizona – Sponsored by the AHS Arizona Chapter and
Unmanned VTOL Technical Committee
Details at www.vtol.org/unmanned
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The world's only international technical society for those working on vertical flight technology
– Since 1943, we’ve led technology, safety, advocacy and other initiatives and been the primary forum for interchange of information on vertical flight technology
We bring together industry, academia & governments to tackle the toughest challenges in vertical flight – UAS Workshop, Unmanned Technical Committee, Unmanned
Conference, VTOL UAS Delivery Design Competition, MAV Student Challenge, etc.
– We advocate for “Strict, enforceable rules that allow the sensible operations of drones” (www.vtol.org/advocacy)
We are the global resource for information on vertical flight technology
Go to www.vtol.org to find out more or to join today!